Apprenticeship in Thinking

Cognitive Development in Social Context

Barbara Rogoff

A compelling new theory of how children learn from a leading developmental psychologist.

Written in an engaging style and illustrated by photographs and original drawings by the author.

Cloth edition, published in January 1990 at $27.95, has sold almost 2000 copies.

Apprenticeship in Thinking

Cognitive Development in Social Context

Barbara Rogoff

Description

This interdisciplinary work presents an integration of theory and research on how children develop their thinking as they participate in cultural activity with the guidance and challenge of their caregivers and other companions. The author, a leading developmental psychologist, views development as an apprenticeship in which children engage in the use of intellectual tools in societally structured activities with parents, other adults, and children. The author has gathered evidence from various disciplines--cognitive, developmental, and cultural psychology; anthropology; infancy studies; and communication research--furnishing a coherent and broadly based account of cognitive development in its sociocultural context. This work examines the mutual roles of the individual and the sociocultural world, and the culturally based processes by which children appropriate and extend skill and understanding from their involvement in shared thinking with other people. The book is written in a lively and engaging style and is supplemented by photographs and original illustrations by the author.

Apprenticeship in Thinking

Cognitive Development in Social Context

Barbara Rogoff

Table of Contents

1. Cognitive Development in Social ContextPART I: The Individual and the Sociocultural Context 2. Conceiving the Relationship of the Social World and the Individual3. The Sociocultural Context of Cognitive ActivityPART II: Processes of Guided Participation 4. Providing Bridges from Known to New5. Structuring Situations and Transferring Responsibility6. Cultural Universals and Variations in Guided ParticipationPART III: Cognitive Development Through Interaction with Adults and Peers 7. Explanations of Cognitive Development through Social Interaction: Vygotsky and Piaget8. Evidence of Learning from Guided Participation with Adults9. Peer Interaction and Cognitive Development10. Shared Thinking and Guided Participation

Apprenticeship in Thinking

Cognitive Development in Social Context

Barbara Rogoff

Author Information

Barbara Rogoff is currently Professor of Psychology and Coordinator of the Developmental Psychology Program at the University of Utah.